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Re: Automated message processing



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On Wednesday, September  3 at 10:59 PM, quoth David Champion:
>> On Wednesday, September  3 at 10:54 PM, quoth Peter Davis:
>>> Usually, the person responds to the "who are you?" message leaving 
>>> the message body intact.  So I want to  have something embedded in 
>>> the "who are you?" message that can point my script back to the 
>>> original "so-and-so wants to join" message from Yahoo!, so I can 
>>> reply to that.
>> 
>> How about just a long random number?
>
> This works, but you'd need to store the valid random number 
> someplace.

It occurs to me that you could also include the original Message-ID as 
the "random number".

~Kyle
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